


($$$-not worth it unless the FB content is gold) get Parallels (a virtual environment manager), install a copy of an old Microsoft Windows-don’t know much about Windows so I have no clue if their latest OSes still have support for FDD) and go from there. The resulting file will be treated as a disk image of some sort. At this point one could use the OS utility 𝚍𝚍. 3.5-inch floppies have been shipped pre-formatted from the factory as DOS. If you get to this point, you might be in luck. The low-level format of floppy disks (and early hard disks) is performed by. (free) I would try to use Mac’s Dɪsᴋ Uᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ to see if it “recognizes” the FD and display its assigned device node (e.g., disk5). To my knowledge, a Mac might not come with the required drivers to read the content of the floppy in a smart way (i.e., able to recognize not only the type of content but the “boundaries” of files on the disk).
